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It always seem to come down to the money. Whenever we (as exemplified by the government, local, state or federal) encounter a problem, the immediate assumption is that if we throw cash at it, it will be solved. The military, education, the environment or a myriad of other challenges we have faced have all met the same “solution”. Cash.

For local governments, one of the biggest responsibilities and challenges revolves around public education. And real estate is VERY wrapped up in the outcomes.

Last year I wrote a short post about the comparative results between Gwinnett County Public Schools and Atlanta Public Schools. One has dramatically better results than the other. One spends massively more money than the other. One is so bad off that even when they had teachers and administrators changing test scores illegally, the cheat-adjusted scores weren’t as good as the other school system’s scores.

The thing missing from the discussion for too long is looking for results, not just sinking the problem under loads of cash.

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